Perforating device for bank-checks.



E. s. J OH NSON & R. 1. BECKLEY. PERFORATING DEVICE FOR BANK CHECKS.

APPLICATION FILED 050.39. 1916- i Patented Dec. 18,1917.-

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ERNEST S. JOHNSON AMD HUBER/I if. BEGKLEY, OE WATERLOO, IOWA.

PEEFOBATING DEVICE FOR, BANZLCHECKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30, 1916. Serial No. 135,759.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ERNEST S. JQHNSON and ROBERT J. Bncmr, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Perforating Devices for Bank- Checks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in protective device for checks and the like, and the object of our improvement is to supply a foldable check-case with a checkpunch mounted thereon conveniently and permanently, said punch having thereon counterpart fastening-means for an overlapped part of the case.

This object we have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure Tie a persp'ectiveview of a foldable case containing a pad or book of checks, with our improved punch and case-fastening means mounted thereon; Fig. 2 is an e larged side elevation of the check-punch and a part of the check-case on which it is mounted, parts of the punch being shown in section; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the pring-plate part of said punch before bending, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of a part of a bank-check, showing thereon the impression of said punch as used to designate and obliterate a definite limiting numeral designating a value not exceeded by the actual face value of the check.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

. The casing 7 is of a well-known foldable 'kind provided with an interior pocket 12 adapted to receive a part of the backing board of a pad or book of blank checks 11. This case has a flap 10 adapted to fold and be overlapped upon an underlying part.

Upon said underlying part of the case is secured a check-punch by means of a headed rivet 8, the head of the rivet adapts for detachable fastening engagement with a socket 9 mounted in the flap 10. The punch consists of a plate-spring 1 doubled upon itself medially to provide two superposed members which are connected by means of said rivet 8 passed through 2. Said pairs of slots straight but desired, and cutting them at 3 from the body of said plate 1. The

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punch is especially adapted to be employed upon a bank-check 11 or any other document on which a face-value is indicated, and where a plurality of fering limiting numerals 13 are placed in an increasing serles.

The punch is then operated to cut and Y impress one of said limiting numerals 13 as shown at 14 and 15, the numeral 14 indicating the incisions made by the cutters 4 while the material of the check is roughened at 15 between said incisions by the diefaces 6, thus indelibly eifacing' or impressing one of said numerals, the efiaced numeral indicating the value next above the face value of the check.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A check protecting device, consisting of a spring-plate doubled to form overlapping members, one of said members havin a pair of transverse slots and the other extremities of said members.

56 members are provided near their free ex--' Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 12th day of Dec. 1916.

ERNEST S. JOHNSON. .ROBERT J. BECHAEY. Witnesses: PEARL M. STANTON, G. (l. KENNEDY.

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